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By Jonathan Granoff, San Diego Union Tribune, 1/10/03
War does not exist without the shedding of innocent blood. Under the best-case scenario, Iraq's children - present victims of the Ba'ath Party mafiocracy with its Don, Saddam Hussein - will suffer most. Destruction of Baghdad's electronic grid will collapse hospitals and water supply systems, and innocent civilians will certainly be the chief victims.
Widely accepted figures from the International Peace Research Institute say war disproportionately affects civilians over combatants 8 to 1. War is never predictable; its fallout, blowbacks, collateral damage and horrors often outstrip our imaginative capacities. Nothing stimulates terrorists as much as the environment of war.
However, there is another course in which justice and security can be advanced since the U.S. threat of force has opened a way. Let us seize it while the moment lasts.
According to a proposal floated in United Nations and policy circles, by moving from the current regime of 100 inspectors to a more intrusive regime of at least 500 to 1,000 permanent monitors with a mandate to prevent the threat of weapons of mass destruction, a dramatic improvement in security can be achieved promptly.
This "robust monitoring" proposal has enormous political and practical benefits. Since it is obviously due to the threat of overwhelming force that Iraq acceded to inspectors or monitors, the United States - hawks and doves alike - could support and legitimately claim credit for such a life-saving security enhancing initiative...
SEE THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT: http://www.gsinstitute.org/archives/000149.shtml#000149
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Futurists say that if anything's going to happen in the way of leaps in technology (in military science), it'll be in the field of medicine. This 'better warrior through chemistry' field is being looked at very closely. It's part of the research going on that is very aggressive and wide open."
- - Retired Rear Admiral Stephen Baker
U.S. Navy Former Chief of Operational Testing & Evaluation
Now at the Center for Defense Information in Washington
RHINO HERE:
UN Weapons Inspectors are set to issue their findings on January 27th. Shrub will give his State of the Union address on January 28th. If inspectors say Iraq's hiding weapons, shrub will be selling war. If they say Iraq is in compliance with UN resolutions, shrub will still be selling war.
During the week of January 27th to February 2nd, The National Network to End the War Against Iraq , a network of over 200 grassroots organizations nation-wide, invites you to join them to speak out about "The Real State of the Union"; Corporate War Profiteering, Indifference to the horrors of war, Recession and Fiscal Crisis, Civil Liberties disappearing. For more information, go to:
http://www.endthewar.org/speakout.htm
A scary and very telling story is emerging concerning the U.S. military's use of drugs on their fighting personnel. It begins with the 2 U.S. pilots who accidentally dropped a guided bomb near Kandahar, Afghanistan on April 17, 2002 that killed 4 Canadians. They've been charged with involuntary manslaughter with the Air Force contending the pilots failed to follow proper procedure and make sure there were no allied troops in the area. But in a military hearing to decide whether they will be court-martialed, one of the pilot's lawyers reported they had been forced to take amphetamines before the flight and were given antidepressants when they returned.
Lawyer Points Finger at Air Force, CBSnews.com, Jan. 2, 2003
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/19/attack/main512764.shtml
But that's not the end of the story my friends. One might say, "Drug use in the military is nothing new." Amphetamines were being used in the early days of the Vietnam War & further back they've used coffee as a upper and booze as a downer. Even the U.S. Cavalry had as part of their excursions, a wagon with a wooden tank full of whiskey. But the Christian Science Monitor reports on a new trend that foresees "performance enhancements" designed to produce "iron bodied and iron willed personnel," as outlined in a document of the US Special Operations Command, which oversees the elite special-operations troops that are part of all the military services.
Military Looks to Drugs for Battle Readiness, Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 9, 2002
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0809/p01s04-usmi.html
But that's still not the end of the story. Here comes the heart of the matter.
TODAY'S BOTTOM LINE ARTICLE
From The Moscow Times, an article about more mad scientist like plans being implemented by DARPA; The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the same outfit operating under convicted Iran-Contra conspirator, John Poindexter, who are busy building the "Total Information Awareness" network. More on the "Total Information Awareness" project in RHINOS BLOG, 11/18/02
http://radio.weblogs.com/0103207/2002/11/18.html
Along with Poindexter's gruesome twosome partner, Donald Rumsfeld, they're experimenting with drugs, gene splicing and electromagnetic "brain zaps" to create "super soldiers" able to fight for days without end and without the concept of surrender. Not a movie, folks. Your tax dollars at work.
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By Chris Floyd , Published 1/10/03, The Moscow Times
The great wizard, leader of the Wise, once known to all the world as a force for good, has turned bitter, fearful -- and ambitious. Aping the ways of the evil he once fought -- brutality, dominance, greed, terror -- he descends to his secret laboratory, where, with black arts of alchemy and fiendish technology, he breeds a race of mutant warriors, "iron bodied and iron willed": fierce fighters who can attack day and night, without rest, their combat spirit kept soaring by spikes of lightning from the wizard's wand.
A scene from J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings," where the corrupted wizard Saruman fashions his monstrous Uruk-Hai to wage a relentless, remorseless war for dominion? No; unfortunately it's a very real scheme now being pursued by the Pentagon, whose dope wizards and gene splicers are working on the creation of the "Extended Performance War Fighter," the Daily Telegraph and Christian Science Monitor report. Pentagon dark lord Donald Rumsfeld is shoveling billions of tax dollars into the research furnaces of federal laboratories and private universities across the land in the wide-ranging effort to spawn "super soldiers," fired by drugs and electromagnetic "brain zaps" to fight without ceasing for days on end. The work is being directed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -- yes, the same outfit now laboring under convicted terrorist-conspirator John Poindexter to build the "Total Information Awareness" network that will allow the government to monitor the electronic records and communications of every citizen.
The DARPA "war fighter enhancement" programs -- an acceleration of bipartisan biotinkering that's been going on for years -- will involve injecting young men and women with hormonal, neurological and genetic concoctions; implanting microchips and electrodes in their bodies to control their internal organs and brain functions; and plying them with drugs that deaden some of their normal human tendencies: the need for sleep, the fear of death, the reluctance to kill their fellow human beings....
THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IS AT:
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2003/01/10/120.html
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